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Dimensions of Clinical Teaching.

The Competence Matrix. As faculty we must realize that students start their dental education with little or no experience. The learner starts the learning process as the unconscious, incompetent learner, as stated on the next slide. It is our goal as faculty to graduate them as minimally competent with the goal that with further clinical practice they then become competent with the end goal of being an expert. Here is a picture of the Competence Matrix. And as they come to us, they are what we call in the first box, Unconscious Incompetent, and then they rise up to be Conscious Incompetent, and by the time they graduate we want them at least to be Conscious Competent. And then as they progress through their clinical practice, they become Unconscious Competent.